Elizabeth Gleicher
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Elizabeth L. Gleicher is a judge on the Michigan Second District Court of Appeals. She was appointed to the Court in 2007 and her current term expires January 1, 2013.[1]
Biography
Judge Gleicher received her bachelor's degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and her law degree from Wayne State University Law School.[1]
Legal career
Before becoming a judge, Elizabeth Gleicher was an attorney in private practice for twenty-seven years. She began her career at Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian in Detroit, and opened her own litigation practice in 1994. She is an elected Fellow of the International Society of Barristers (2004) and the American College of Trial Lawyers (2005). She received the Respected Advocate Award from the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel in 2005 and the State Bar of Michigan Champion of Justice Award in 2001. Judge Gleicher has served on the faculty of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education and as an Adjunct Professor at Wayne State University Law School. In addition to the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel's Respected Advocate Award (2005) and the State Bar of Michigan's Champion of Justice Award (2001), she has received the Planned Parenthood Advocate Award (1998) and the Karmanos Cancer Institute Hero of Breast Cancer Leadership Award (1997).[1]
Democrats’ high court proposal
The Detroit Free Press reports that the Michigan Association for Justice and state Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer have created a ballot initiative to reduce "the state Supreme Court to five justices and eliminate seven of the 28 seats on the Michigan Court of Appeals." Elizabeth Gleicher and other Democrats have come out strongly against these efforts. Judge Gleicher wrote in a letter to Mark Brewer, "History should teach us that court-packing and court destruction are imprudent, ill-advised techniques to accomplish short-term political goals," Gleicher wrote last month in a letter to Brewer and top leaders of the state's leading trial lawyers' group. "The Democrats' attempt to punish Republican justices for the content of their opinions 'should be anathema to lawyers who care about judicial independence,'" she added.[2] The Brennan Center for Justice and Justice at Stake have also come out against the ballot initiative.[3] Justice at Stake has called on Democratic Party to halt court-bashing ad.
See also
External links
- Granholm Appoints Judges to Michigan Court of Appeals
- Institute of Continuing Legal Education
- Michigan Court of Appeals: Elizabeth Gleicher
- Four chosen as "Champions of Justice"
- Tourism industry seeks $30M in annual funding
- The Detroit Free Press
- Political Contributions by Individuals
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